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gojomo
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Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doe...
Similarly, a white hat could watch /events and warn users and/or services when credentials are 'burned'. (A major exploitable service like AWS might even want to do this itself.)
krallin
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AWS actually does that already — they'll ping you by email if they find one of your keys on GitHub!
TazeTSchnitzel
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Why do they take longer than the black hats, though?
jpdlla
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Thinking of actually working on this. Seems like an interesting and useful little project. Can email users or create an issue on the repo.
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